ctan-ann August 2005

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CTAN upload: endheads 1.0a
by CTAN Announcements 23 Aug '05

23 Aug '05

On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 John Burt submitted a new package called endheads to CTAN. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Endheads provides running headers of the form Notes to pp. xx--yy for endnotes sections. It also enables one to reset the endnotes counter, and put a line marking the chapter change in the endnotes, at the beginning of every chapter. Endnotes requires fancyhdr, ifthen, and endnotes ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/endheads Summary description: Running headers of the form Notes to pp.xx-yy License type: lppl Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: acronym-1.20
by CTAN Announcements 21 Aug '05

21 Aug '05

On Tue, 16 Aug 2005, Tobias Oetiker submitted version 1.20 of the acronym package. This package ensures that all acronyms used in the text are spelled out in full at least once. It also provides an environment to build a list of acronyms used. The package is compatible with pdf bookmarks. License: lppl Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/acronym/ Recent Changes: --------------------------------------------------- Version 1.20 (August 2005): make the acused command actually work -- Richard Walker Richard.Walker there cs.anu.edu.au Version 1.19 (April 2005): three new commands acused (set-used), acsu (adds to used), aclu (adds to used) -- Lee Netherton ltn100 there ohm.york.ac.uk Version 1.18 (April 2005): added additional format option for Full Name (acfi) -- Manuel Gortz mgoertz there kom.tu-darmstadt.de Version 1.17 (November 2004): added don't use acronyms (dua) option -- Oliver Creighton Version 1.16 (November 2004): fix version number -- Oliver Creighton <creighto there in.tum.de> new option to suppress all acronym printing -- don't use acronyms (dua) Version 1.16 (November 2004): fix version number -- tobi there oetiker.ch Version 1.15 (November 2004): fix for acresetall to work when ac is called ------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: fontools
by CTAN Announcements 21 Aug '05

21 Aug '05

On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 Marc Penninga submitted an update to the fontools package. This package provides a few tools to ease using fonts (especially Truetype/Opentype ones) with Latex and fontinst: AFM2AFM - reencode .afm files; designed to replace fontinst's eencodefont for big .afm files. AUTOINST - simplify the use of the LCDF TypeTools by creating a command file for otftotfm, plus .fd and .sty files. CMAP2ENC - convert glyph indices in TrueType fonts without glyph names (such as Linotype Palatino) to Adobe glyph names. FONT2AFM - create font metrics; this is just a wrapper script around tools such as pf2afm, ttf2afm, pfm2kpx and ot2kpx. OT2KPX - extract all kerning pairs from an OpenType font. PFM2KPX - extract all kerning pairs from buggy .pfm files (the ones where pf2afm complains .notdef character occurred among kern pairs). SHOWGLYPHS - create a pdf file that shows all glyphs in a font. Location on CTAN: fonts/utilities/fontools Summary description: Tools to simplify using fonts (especially TrueType/OpenType ones). License type: gpl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - A few bugfixes - Added support files for a new encoding that may be useful for use with OpenType fonts, since it contains much more empty slots (for alternate glyphs and additional ligatures) than LY1. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: PSTricks
by CTAN Announcements 20 Aug '05

20 Aug '05

On Sat, 20 Aug 2005 Herbert Voss submitted an update to the pstricks package. Location on CTAN: /graphics/pstricks/ Summary description: bugfix to the main pstricks package License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- pstricks.tex v.1.10 - fix bug with multips (spurious blank) (hv) - allow empty optional arrow argument psline[..]{}(2,2) - redefined psarc@iv for negative loops of ccircle - introduce new options shift and showgrid for the main pspicture environment ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: poemscol 2.36
by CTAN Announcements 20 Aug '05

20 Aug '05

On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 John Burt uplodaed an update to the poemscol package. Poemscol.sty is a set of LaTeX macros for typesetting critical editions of poetry. Its features include automatic linenumbering, generation of separate endnotes sections for emendations, textual collations, and explanatory notes, special marking for cases in which page breaks occur during stanza breaks, running headers of the form ``Notes to pp. xx--yy''for the notes sections, index of titles and first lines, and automatic generation of table of contents. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/poemscol Summary description: macros for critical editions of verse and prose License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Poemscol 2.36 adds the ability to annotate prose texts by sentence and paragraph number. Notes made using this reference system are stable even if the edition is reset in a different format. Overlapping lemmas are supported. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: vhistory
by CTAN Announcements 20 Aug '05

20 Aug '05

On Sat, 13 Aug 2005 Jochen Wertenauer submitted an update to the vhistory package. Vhistory simplifies the creation of a history of versions of a document. You can easily extract informations like the current version of a list of authors from that history. It helps you to get consistent documents. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/vhistory Summary description: Minor upgrade of vhistory License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Minor upgrade: I changed the directory structure of the documentation to make it compliant to the TeX Live standard. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: gost BiBTeX styles
by CTAN Announcements 20 Aug '05

20 Aug '05

On Fri, 12 Aug 2005, Maksym Polyakov submitted a bug fix release of the gost package to CTAN. It contains BibTeX styles to format bibliography in English, Russian and Ukrainian according to GOST 7.1-84 and GOST 7.80-00. License: LPPL Location on CTAN: biblio/bibtex/contrib/gost Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: xkeyval v2.5d
by CTAN Announcements 20 Aug '05

20 Aug '05

On Sat, 13 Aug 2005, Hendri Adriaens submitted version 2.5d of the xkeyval package to CTAN. This package is an extension of the keyval package and offers additional macros for setting keys and declaring and setting class or package options. The package allows the programmer to specify a prefix to the name of the macros it defines for keys, and to define families of key definitions; these all help use in documents where several packages define their own sets of keys. Changes: ------------------------------------------ Added a missing filename@area in document class retrieval in xkeyval.sty ------------------------------------------ Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: CJK 4.6.0
by CTAN Announcements 12 Aug '05

12 Aug '05

On Fri, 12 Aug 2005, Werner LEMBERG submitted version 4.6.0 of the CJK package to CTAN. Location on CTAN: language/chinese/CJK/4_6.0 > ====================================================================== > > > Version 4.6.0: new: > 11-Aug-2005 CJKutf8.sty merges basic LaTeX's and CJK's UTF-8 support. > See CJKutf8.doc for details. > > The two new macros Thaispace and Thainospace can be > used to control the EOL behaviour in Thai text blocks > if processed with cjk-enc.el. > > There are now scripts (for Unix) to call pdflatex > instead of latex: bg5pdflatex, sjispdflatex, etc.; > all scripts now pass parameters to latex (the program). > > New documentation files giving hints how to set up the > CJK package for optimal PDF output. > > New documentation file `reftex.doc' describing > customization for RefTeX (which is part of Emacs). > > CJKfntef.sty provides more font effects specific to > CJK scripts. See the example file CJKfntef.tex for > typical usage. > > * All .fdv-files have been renamed to use the suffix > * `.fdx' since they are no longer restricted to vertical > * writing direction. See the new file `fdxfiles.doc' > * for more information. > > changed: > All plain text documentation files now have the suffix > `.txt'. > > * Thai support has been improved. > * > * . Internally, the font creation process now uses > * fontinst to create the TFM files. As a consequence, > * virtual fonts are no longer necessary. > * > * . Due to an uncertain license, the `dbtt' font family > * has been replaced with `garuda', taken from > * thailatex version 0.3.5.1 which you can find at > * > * http://linux.thai.net/plone/TLWG/thailatex > * > * . The directory tree below `utils/thaifont' has been > * updated to reflect TDS 1.1, as supported by the > * forthcoming TeXLive 2005 and teTeX 3.0. > * > * Please replace all files related to Thai fonts in your > * TEXMF tree with the new fonts and font support files. > > * HLaTeX support has been updated to handle fonts from > * version 1.0.1---there are no longer MF source files, > * only PS fonts. Support for non-uhc fonts have been > * removed; you should upgrade to the latest HLaTeX font > * archives from CTAN. Please consult CJK.txt, section > * `Korean input', for the (slightly) changed font names of > * HLaTeX support. > > errors: > Some characters in Big 5 encoding disappeared without > a warning if pseudo-vertical writing was active. > > pinyin.sty: > Umlaut u with diacritc appeared bold. > > Umlaut u with macron above was broken. > > CJKulem.sty: > User-defined CJKglue value was ignored. > > Line breaks before a post-punctuation CJK glyph > weren't disabled when uline and friends were used. > > MULEenc.sty: > extordfeminine and extordmasculine were exchanged > if used with cjk-enc.el. > > contrib/wadalab/*.fdx: > Handle Hiragana-Katagana prolongation mark correctly. > > cjk-enc.el: > Multifile support was partially broken. > > CJKvert.sty: > Both CJKvert and CJKhorz had both local and global > effects. Now they are completely local. Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: arev
by CTAN Announcements 12 Aug '05

12 Aug '05

On Fri, 12 Aug 2005, Stephen Hartke submitted an update to his arev font package. Location on CTAN: /fonts/arev Summary description: Type 1 fonts, virtual fonts, and LaTeX support files for Arev Sans License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The package arev provides Type 1 fonts, virtual fonts, and LaTeX packages for using Arev Sans for both text and mathematics. Arev Sans is a derivative of Bitstream Vera Sans created by Tavmjong Bah by adding support for Greek and Cyrillic characters. Bah also added a few variant letters that are more appropriate for mathematics. The primary purpose for using Arev Sans in LaTeX is presentations, particularly when using a computer projector. Arev Sans is quite readable for presentations, with large x-height, open letters, wide spacing, and thick stems. The style is very similar to the SliTeX font lcmss, but heavier. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the update. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN upload: vhistory
by CTAN Announcements 12 Aug '05

12 Aug '05

On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, Jochen Wertenauer submitted a new package called vhistory to CTAN. Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/vhistory Summary description: vhistory helps you to create a change log. Use the package sets for set operations. License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Vhistory simplifies the creation of a history of versions of a document. You can easily extract informations like the current version of a list of authors from that history. It helps you to get consistent documents. The package sets, which is used be vhistory, allowes you to use sets containing text. You can use the usual operations to union sets, intersect sets etc. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN Upload: elpres
by CTAN Announcements 12 Aug '05

12 Aug '05

On Wed, 10 Aug 2005, Volker Kiefel submitted a new package elpres to CTAN. Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/elpres License: lppl Short description: Elpres is a simple class for electronic presentations to be shown on screen or a beamer. Elpres is derived from article.cls and may be used with LaTeX or pdfLaTeX. ------------------------------------------------------------ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN upload: plnfss
by CTAN Announcements 12 Aug '05

12 Aug '05

On Wed, 10 Aug 2005, The Thanh Han submitted a new package called plnfss to CTAN. Location on CTAN: /macros/plain/plnfss Summary description: limited NFSS support for plain License type: dfsg Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- plnfss is a set of macros to provide easy font access (somewhat similar to NFSS but with some limitations) with plain tex. plnfss can automatically make use of PSNFSS fd files, ie when a postscript font is used the relevant fd file will be loaded automatically. For cmr-like fonts (ec, vnr, csr or plr fonts), a special format called pfd (plain fd) is required and must be loaded manually. See ot1cmr.pfd for further information. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN package upload: dvisvgm
by FTP archive maintainer 10 Aug '05

10 Aug '05

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thank you for the contribution, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: dvisvgm Author's name: Martin Gieseking Location on CTAN: /dviware/dvisvgm Summary description: This utility converts DVI files to the Scalable Vector Graphics format (SVG) License type: gpl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- dvisvgm is a command line utility that converts TeX DVI files to the XML-based Scalable Vector Graphics format. The initial release 0.3 provides basic functionality that will be extended in future versions. You need a working TeX installation including the kpathsea library and Type 1 versions of the referenced fonts. dvisvgm was successfully tested with teTeX and MikTeX. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/dviware/dvisvgm . You may get a better network connection by using a CTAN mirror near to you; see http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors . Our service is supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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Re: CTAN upload notification: abbr
by CTAN Announcements 10 Aug '05

10 Aug '05

On Wed, 10 Aug 2005 The Thanh Han submitted a new package called abbr to CTAN. Location on CTAN: /macros/generic/abbr Summary description: a simple macro supporting abreviations for plain and latex License type: pd Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- abbr is a set of some simple macros to support abbreviations in plain or latex. It allows writting e.g. <TEX> instead of TeX, hence frees users from having to escape space after parematerless macros. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN has a new package: exteps
by FTP archive maintainer 10 Aug '05

10 Aug '05

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon make its way to your favorite mirror. Thanks for the upload, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: exteps Author's name: Palle Jørgensen Location on CTAN: /graphics/metapost/contrib/macros/exteps Summary description: Tool for inclusion of EPS figures into MetaPost figures. License type: gpl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- exteps is a module for inclusion of external EPS figures into MetaPost figures. It is written solely in MetaPost, and whence does not require any post processing of the MetaPost output. - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/metapost/contrib/macros/exteps . You may get a better network connection by using a CTAN mirror near to you; see http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors . Our service is supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN has a new package: dottex
by FTP archive maintainer 09 Aug '05

09 Aug '05

A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should by now have made its way to your favorite mirror. Thanks, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: dottex Author's name: Lars Kotthoff Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/dottex Summary description: Create dot graphs within LaTeX License type: gpl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Dottex allows you to create dot graphs (part of the graphviz package http://www.graphviz.org, creates directed graphs) within LaTeX documents. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/dottex . You may get a better network connection by using a CTAN mirror near to you; see http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors . Our service is supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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tug.ctan.org upload: TpX
by FTP archive maintainer 09 Aug '05

09 Aug '05

A major package update has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon make its way to all other CTAN sites. Thank you for the update, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: TpX Author's name: Alexander Tsyplakov Location on CTAN: /graphics/tpx/ Summary description: TpX: A LaTeX-friendly drawing tool for Windows License type: gpl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- TpX 1.2 is on CTAN TpX is a lightweight, easy-to-use graphical editor for Windows platform for creation of drawings and inclusion them into LaTeX files in publication-ready form. It can also be used as a stand-alone editor for vector graphics. The output is a file (with extension .TpX) containing the drawing as LaTeX code or as an includegraphics link to an external file created by the program. User can choose between several output formats. TpX saves its own data in TeX file comments so that the drawing could be loaded into TpX and edited again. This internal TpX format is based on XML and could be understood and edited easily. TpX can import EMF/WMF pictures created by other Windows applications, including many applications producing scientific graphs. In most cases the result is nice, though sometimes imported picture needs some manual editing. So TpX can be used as a EMF-to-any converter. Homepage: http://tpx.sourceforge.net/ Distributed under GNU Public License - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/tpx/ . You may get a better network connection by using a CTAN mirror near to you; see http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors . Our service is supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN has a new package: arev
by FTP archive maintainer 05 Aug '05

05 Aug '05

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon appear, as if by magic, at your favorite mirror. Thank you for the contribution, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: arev Author's name: Stephen Hartke Location on CTAN: /fonts/arev Summary description: Virtual fonts and LaTeX support files for Arev Sans License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The package arev provides virtual fonts and LaTeX packages for using Arev Sans. Arev Sans is a derivative of Bitstream Vera Sans created by Tavmjong Bah by adding support for Greek and Cyrillic characters. Bah also added a few variant letters that are more appropriate for mathematics. The primary purpose for using Arev Sans in LaTeX is presentations, particularly when using a computer projector. Arev Sans is quite readable for presentations, with large x-height, open letters, wide spacing, and thick stems. The style is very similar to the SliTeX font lcmss, but heavier. - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/arev . You may get a better network connection by using a CTAN mirror near to you; see http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors . Our service is supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN has a new package: talk
by FTP archive maintainer 01 Aug '05

01 Aug '05

A new package has been installed at tug.ctan.org from whence it will go forth into the world -- and in particular to your favorite mirror -- real soon. Thanks for the contribution, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: talk Author's name: Martin Wiebusch Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/talk Summary description: A LaTeX class for presentations License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The talk document class allows you to create slides for screen presentations or printing on transparencies. It also allows you to print personal notes for your talk. You can create overlays and display structure information (current section / subsection, table of contents) on your slides. The main feature that distinguishes talk from other presentation classes like beamer or prosper is that it allows the user to define an arbitrary number of slide styles and switch between these styles from slide to slide. This way the slide layout can be adapted to the slide content. For example, the title or contents page of a talk can be given a slightly different layout than the other slides. The talk class makes no restrictions on the slide design whatsoever. The entire look and feel of the presentation can be defined by the user. The style definitions should be put in a separate sty file. Currently the package comes with only one set of pre-defined slide styles (greybars.sty). Contributions from people who are artistically more gifted than me are more than welcome! - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- See this package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/talk . You may get a better network connection by using a CTAN mirror near to you; see http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors . Our service is supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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